Anonymous, a loosely knit group of hackers, took credit for defacing up to 500 Chinese websites Thursday, according to ABC News.

I guess Asia is getting the worst of it, but looking at the Internet Traffic Report’s Network Overview, which if I’m interpreting it properly, it appears that internet speeds in the Vancouver area really are slower than slug-shit. (We’re doing better than some places in Ontario, though. Yeek.)

Oh well, since it’s Anonymous, I can forgive and forget. (But with an internet connection this slow, don’t expect me.)

You’re lucky. Shaw has been doing it to regular high speed internet users ever since they introduced their Super-Duper-Extra High Speed internet… which is about the same speed as the high speed internet I originally had :evil:

Well, it has been sluggish ever since they introduced their “ultra” high speed internet a year or 2 ago. It started off with just a little occasional sluggishness but it was tolerable, but lately it’s been all the time. This is a pretty obvious ham-fisted attempt to get all their high speed users to switch to “ultra” high speed, I’m even considering it myself. I’ve only held back because it pisses me off to get extorted into buying something that I already bought 10 years ago.

Shorter Shaw Cable: “Nice internet speed you got there… be a shame if anything were to happen to it.”

I spent most of yesterday offline, cleaning up all the garbage in my computer. Antivirus showed there was no problem that way, so it was just due to a lot of extraneous crap left over by surfing the net, especially to the places that have advertising. The Spyware they leave can be almost as bad as a virus for slowing down your computer.
I must have downloaded 5 different kinds of mac cleaner-outers.
Anyway, it seems to be working a lot better now :)

teh InterToobs was a tad slow when I was downtown at work today, but then I came home and jumped on the fiber connection I had strung into my apartment (paid for in large part by kicking the cable networks out of that same apartment a couple of years ago) and all was good again.

The most hysterical thing about this story is there are a great many bone heads out there who were just a short time ago saying that Anonymous needed to be hunted down and shot like rabid skunks because they took time out of their busy days to teach Toews a bit of an Internet lesson – now cheering them on for sticking one to the Chinese.

….. and yes, I have seen fit to remind a few of them of the hypocracy of their current statements; an exercise that illustrated (once again) that amid their other great many failings the political hyper-partisan set neither accepts constructive criticism gracefully, nor appreciates being reminded of their own personal positions of only a month ago :-)

Oh no, you must never remind boneheads (of any political stripe, hyperpartisanship is all that’s required) that a little Consistency is a Good Thing.

Although I would say you’re doing them a service to remind them of their hypocrisy so they can resolve the issue, the boneheads themselves tend to not appreciate this kind of assistance. I can’t imagine why… I’d want to know if I was contradicting myself and making myself look like a brainless dumbass.

:shock: Thanks — I scanned my whole system right away when I read this. As a Mac user, I sometimes forget there are viruses out there that target macs, although they’re few and far between. I caught one a couple of months ago, so they are out there.

Anyway, all was clear, no nasty little bugs crawling around. But thanks for the reminder :)

Our net connection has been nuts for a while – so much so I changed out the router for a gaming supply style unit.I did hear Telus was fine while Shaw went ditzy nationally – as reflected in wait times to query them.